RE: freetype, and building on windows

Hi Gordon,

Should now be fixed in CVS - and builds ok for me. Please let us know if is ok for you.

Thanks

Richard

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Maunder
>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:12 AM
>To: Rene Brun; Gordon Watts
>Cc: ROOT Mailin List
>Subject: RE: [ROOT] freetype, and building on windows
>
>You have to use nmake for these .mak files - they are Windows
>specific. This is automatic as part of the freetype build.
>
>This problem was reported a while ago (by me) - I thought Fons
>was correcting it. Attached is a patch to tidy them.
>
>Richard
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-roottalk_at_pcroot.cern.ch
>>[mailto:owner-roottalk_at_pcroot.cern.ch] On Behalf Of Rene Brun
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 9:41 AM
>>To: Gordon Watts
>>Cc: ROOT Mailin List
>>Subject: Re: [ROOT] freetype, and building on windows
>>
>>Hi Gordon,
>>
>>Do not use nmake, but make as provided by cygwin.
>>
>>Rene Brun
>>
>>On Wed, 22 Jun 2005,
>>Gordon Watts wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I've been trying to build the most recent version of root on my
>>> Windows PC. It seems the freetype.mak and freetype.dep files
>>have UNIX
>>> line endings in them instead of the DOS ones -- nmake fails
>outright
>>> on line one (I think it ends up thinking of the whole file
>>as a single
>>> line). Unfortunately, most windows tools are now good enough to
>>> automatically deal with the difference between the two line endings
>>> and so it took me a while to figure out what was going on!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Gordon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
Received on Wed Jun 22 2005 - 10:23:04 MEST